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Yucca Valley is a beautiful white Desert Willow from the south western edge of the Mojave desert. It was found in a high desert wash mixed with Big Berry Manzanita, Bladder sage and near the original Flaming Penny California Fuchsia. The Pink Desert...
Synonym: Salix lucida ssp. lasiandra. Pacific willow has had a number of name changes and(Red willow, shining willow) but it is a suckering willow that grows in river channels from S. California to Alaska and east to the Canadian and Us Rockies. Use...
A 15-30' deciduous shrub-tree. Yellow stems and light green leaves. Native through much of the Southwest. Not a fast grower. It spends most of its first few year growing roots. We have seen this in the Bakersfield area. They were growing next to the ...
A fuzzy grey almost groundcover willow of the upper middle Sierras.
Desert willow, Chilopsis linearis is a large deciduous shrub or small tree. There is one in McFarland 30 feet+tall, but usually they are a 15 foot or so small tree. Its willow- like, long, narrow leaves and growth along desert washes give the dese...
Mulefat is an eight foot evergreen shrub, protect from deer,elk,etc.for first few years, grows from coastal areas to Tex., usually around water sources, but not always. In some areas like where the 14 takes off of the 5 south of Santa Clarita, or in...
A 10' deciduous bush that is native from Cal.to Wyo. and Alberta. We have a customer that has it on Bear Mountain, 7500' in Kern Co.. Streamside in a 20" rainfall area. Companion plants were Ribes nevadensis, Quercus Wislizenii, Cornus stolonifera, Q...
A 10-20\' deciduous shrub or tree. We list it for stream bank stabilization. This one is native to most of Ca. north to Idaho and Alaska. It is native on the nursery site in the seasonal creek. A pioneer species on wet sites. We lost a number of our ...
A 10-25\' deciduous tree-shrub. A stream-side plant. It likes full sun and water. Good for stream stabilization. This species is native to much of Ca. thru Ariz. to Utah. It is native on the nursery site in decomposed granite with a seasonal stream f...
A 15-30ft deciduous shrub-tree. Yellow stems and light green leaves. Native through much of the Southwest. Not a fast grower. It spends most of its first few year growing roots.
A tall deciduous shrub that is native from Texas to California to B.C.. It has a grey leaf that is only 1/4 inch wide and 2-5 inches long. I have seen these in Lee Vining, and they were growing in an evermoist area in filtered shade (from Populus tr...
Flaming Red Penny California fuchsia is a more compact form of Zauschneria latifolia johnstonii. It has the same lush large green leaves and large showy flowers as the Bush fuchsia but the plant is a bit smaller. And it shows a bit less Bert leg. Thi...
Stanleya pinnata, Princes Plume , is a 2' perennial with 3' yellow flower spikes. No water after established. Native from just east and souh of us to North Dakota and Texas. Its leaves can be used as cooked greens. In one location we've seen this...
(syn. Audibertia capitata, Audibertiella c., Ramona c.) Mojave sage is a nice little perennial sage from the Little San Bernardino mountains to the Clark mountains of Nevada. Bright fuzzy green leaves with cool blue flowers make this plant very diffe...
A grey willow that is 4-6ft tall in our area. It can get to 15ft in the San Joaquin Valley. It is native all over Calif. (below 3000ft) and into Baja and Oregon. Excellent for stream stabilizing as it suckers madly. It is native in a stream bed a few...
Salazaria mexicana, Bladder Sage is a rather delicate, 3 feet tall bush with intricately arranged purple flowers; the whole effect is to make it appear ghostly. Bladder Sage grows in many diverse areas of the deserts. In most areas of California ...
Cliff Rose, Purshia stansburiana, is native to the north edges of the Mojave desert to Colorado, Utah and Arizona. A 4 ft. high evergreen (it can get bigger if happy) with creamy yellow 1" flowers in April - June followed by an intricate mass of fea...
California Indigo Bush is a deciduous bush that grows in desert washes in the north western portion of the Colorado Desert from the desert floor up to about 1460 meters(4800 ft,). You'll almost always find it associated with a wash, much like Desert ...
Oso Berry, Osmaronia cerasiformis, is found in the wild in either relatively highly forested areas in part or high shade or north slopes in fairly moist partial shade, sandy topsoil, clay subsoil. Uncommon in closed-cone pine forest, chaparral, mi...
Desert Lavender, Hyptis (Condea) emoryi, is a frost sensitive perennial that grows to 4-8ft tall and 3ft wide with gray foliage. It has blue-lavender flowers with a foliage scent similar to a tangy lavender. The odor is rich and luxurious. Desert lav...
Diplacus calycinus, Kaweah River bush Monkey Flower, is a little startling to see; a lovely butter-yellow-flowered monkey flower in full sun amongst the cacti and saltbush or sticking out of what appears to be solid rock. We saw it in the Pinyon-Ju...
Beloperone californica is a deciduous shrub to 4 ft., gray-green succulent plant with tubular red to yellow flowers, native to deserts of California, Ariz. and Mex., will freeze to ground but will usually grow back, good for desert borders or dry coa...
A deciduous willow -like shrub to 10 feet. Male and female flowers are on separate plants. Long, vertical stems make the appearance of this plant undesirable for the formal garden, but in a wild garden it would look appropriate and, as an added bonu...
California Box Elder is a deciduous tree, usually 30', possible to 50'. Native to the mountains of central and northern California. Acer negundo var. californicum has a bad rap because of the box elder bug, which on the worst of years is no big de...
Ok, here are 25 native plants for the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys that probably will survive. I know they've made it in Bakersfield, Visailia, Fresno, and Sacramento.